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posted by admin on May 14

What’s the Safest Rabies Vaccine for Cats?

The answer is: the one your vet recommends.

Basically, your vet can only recommend the one rabies vaccine the world has to your cat. Obviously, for each individual animal your vet will consider it’s medical history and lifestyle and balance this against the relative risk of it coming into contact with a rabid animal. In the States, this can be quite a high chance, so the rabies vaccine is your cats only defence against the disease.

I’ve heard of cats reacting to vaccines…. 
Yes, of course it is possible that one cat in a million may react badly to the vaccine, just as humans can, but the unfortunate injury or death of one animal is nothing compared to the amount of cats that could die of rabies if they were not vaccinated against rabies.

However, for a vaccine to work, it needs to be administered to an effective percentage level, for example 85%. This means that over 85% of the population needs to be vaccinated in order to keep the disease in check.

What it means is that if the percentage of animals fall below that level, the overall vaccine program for that region or country will start to break down.

Putting it in simpler terms, if you cover 85% of your cat with a specific flea treatment, it is likely you will kill all the fleas and not see any more for some time. However, if you only use flea treatment on 50% of your cat, it is likely that you will not kill ALL the fleas, and soon our cat will be overrun with them again as they breed.

This is how all vaccines work, so your vet will always recommend it in endemic regions - it keeps you beloved cat protected, and all the other local pets will benefit from it too.

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